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The Last Battle: Soldier Settlement in Australia 1916-1939
Bruce Scates
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Description for The Last Battle: Soldier Settlement in Australia 1916-1939
Hardcover. This book maps out the deeply personal history of the soldiers' struggle to transition from Anzac to farmer and provider. Num Pages: 272 pages, 56 b/w illus. 8 colour illus. BIC Classification: HBW; HBWN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 182 x 252 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1002.
When Australian soldiers returned from the First World War they were offered the chance to settle on 'land fit for heroes'. Promotional material painted a picture of prosperous farms and contented families, appealing to returned servicepeople and their families hoping for a fresh start. Yet just 20 years after the inception of these soldier settlement schemes, fewer than half of the settlers remained on their properties. In this timely book, based on recently uncovered archives, Bruce Scates and Melanie Oppenheimer map out a deeply personal history of the soldiers' struggle to transition from Anzac to farmer and provider. At its ... Read more
When Australian soldiers returned from the First World War they were offered the chance to settle on 'land fit for heroes'. Promotional material painted a picture of prosperous farms and contented families, appealing to returned servicepeople and their families hoping for a fresh start. Yet just 20 years after the inception of these soldier settlement schemes, fewer than half of the settlers remained on their properties. In this timely book, based on recently uncovered archives, Bruce Scates and Melanie Oppenheimer map out a deeply personal history of the soldiers' struggle to transition from Anzac to farmer and provider. At its ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107125063
SKU
V9781107125063
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
About Bruce Scates
Professor Bruce Scates is Chair of History and Australian Studies and Director at the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University, Victoria. Professor Melanie Oppenheimer is Chair of History and Chair, School Research Committee, in the School of History and International Relations at Flinders University of South Australia.
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